We applied to the council for a permit for the skip, as we have to have it on the road immediately outside the premises. I left this with Ken to do, and he got the relevant application off last Tuesday. Yesterday, as I was pulling yet more staples out of floorboards all day, he called me at lunch time to say that they'd sent him a permit, but that it had been granted from Monday to Thursday, even though he had asked specifically for Friday. Well...unfortunately that wouldn't do. The only day that we could all chip in with the work was Friday, so he had to call them back.
When he did that, he called the person described as the contact if there were any queries on the license. He got put through to a guy that looks after all of the licensing for laying Tarmac. When Ken explained what had happened to him, the guy on the phone told him that our license was in fact for laying Tarmac over a four day period, and not for a skip! Back to the drawing board with that then......
Finally he managed to get it all sorted out. So Friday it definitely is. I managed to de-staple three more rooms yesterday in 7 hours. We have two more rooms to go, and the remainder of one corridor, and one more corridor and that is it. Done. What a job. My hands are going through a bit of pain with it all, but you only have to do it once. We should have that all done Friday, and I will leave the sanding back and finishing with lacquer until last. On to the bathrooms next week, there's a guy that does dry plaster coming to do some repair quotes then, and Victoria moves on to the fireplace restoration project. Today is a day off the rehab, and to let my poor hands have a rest!
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